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A tenfold improvement in battery life?
January 15, 2008 Stanford researchers say silicon nanowires could help extend the life of a lithium ion battery for laptops from 4 hours to 40 hours.Pour yourself a silicon solar panel
October 12, 2007 Start-up claims it can create crystalline silicon solar cells with liquid, cutting manufacturing costs in half.IBM aims to salvage silicon for solar industry
October 30, 2007 Erase those old circuits and you've got some silicon for solar panels. Big Blue hopes the technique will take off with chipmakers.Photos: Reclaiming silicon with waterSilicon, silicone and Alaskan salmon
October 16, 2007 The Aleutians may not become "Rubber Hose Valley" any day soon, but tiny hoses could help spawn a major change in biological equipment.Photos: Fluidigm BioMark systemAMD sneaks strained silicon into chips
August 19, 2004 The design twist will let the company increase the performance of its processors.Silicon vs. CIGS: With solar energy, the issue is material
October 2, 2006 What should solar panels be made of? Silicon has history on its side, but the future may lie in CIGS.IBM doubles speed of silicon germanium chips
August 5, 2005 New generation of processors can help cell phone operators handle higher bandwidth speeds.IBM combo technique tweaks transistors
September 9, 2003 Researchers at Big Blue manage to combine strained silicon and a silicon insulator in the same wafer, a new approach that could lead to faster, more efficient chips in a few years.Move over silicon, there's new transistor material in town
December 8, 2006 MIT, among others, is working with new composite materials it hopes will be able to reliably outpace the conducting speed of silicon.IBM prints with molecules
September 11, 2007 Researchers have devised a way to print patterns with molecules, precisely arranging particles on a template that can be used like a rubber stamp.Harnessing quantum dots for solar panels
June 27, 2007 Sources say a start-up is working to use the tiny particles to convert sunlight into electricity.Applied invests in solar-wafer maker
November 20, 2006 Chipmaking-equipment bigwig dips another toe into solar energy with $3 million investment in silicon ingot maker Solaicx.Chipmakers' silicon scraps feed solar industry's hunger
May 23, 2007 Selling unusable silicon wafers to solar cell makers is good for the environment, and companies like TI make money at it too.IBM slows light, readies it for networking
November 2, 2005 Light's fast, but if it can be slowed down, it can be used inside computers to cut down on energy, Big Blue says.Solar expert HelioVolt gets $77 million
August 16, 2007 The specialist in CIGS solar cells plans to use the money to build factories for producing the panels.Intel sketches out nanotechnology road map
October 25, 2004 The firm is planning new ways to increase chip speed. Could "spintronics" replace silicon-based technology?AMD launches its 65-nanometer chips
December 5, 2006 Chips consume 30 percent less energy than same ones produced on 90-nanometer process when running at same speed.Sharp expanding beyond silicon in solar
October 17, 2006 Company experiments with new materials and techniques--and even partners with a bank--to push solar energy forward.Intel unveils silicon laser
February 16, 2005 Optical technology performs well but is awfully expensive. The latest in a series of breakthroughs could cure the cost problem. Photos: Lasers on a chipIBM, AMD claim a better way to strain silicon
December 13, 2004 Chip performance is being improved by pulling silicon atoms apart, and in some cases pushing them closer together.
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